Children from Higher-Income Families Suffer More When Parents Split
Published at(NEW YORK) — A new study found evidence that children from higher-income families suffer more when their parents split up than children from lower-income families.
Researchers looked at a sample of almost 4,000 children from around the country. The study, published in the journal Child Development, found that kids from wealthier families experienced more behavioral problems after a parental split. Researchers speculated that part of the causation for this is that children from lower-income families may feel less of a change, in terms of economic resources, when one parent leaves.
Children also generally exhibited improved behavior when they moved from a one-parent household to a stepparent family.
Researchers also reaffirmed findings from previous studies that changes in family structure have a greater impact on children in the first five years of their lives than in later years.
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